Man hit by vandals after helping Sandy cleanup

Art McFarland, 1202/2012

HUNTINGTON (WABC) -- Paul Nosak, a tree-servicer owner says he had always dreamed of bringing his company to New York and making a difference.

Nosak was part of a clean-up outside the Huntington Baptist Church, where several huge trees had fallen on the roof. A local tree service originally said that the removal of the trees would have to wait until January...

Nosak then saw the damage as he passed through the neighborhood by chance. He then walked into the church to offer his immediate services...

A team of eight workers joined Nosak and got the job done in 48 hours, but with his tractor trailers and other equipment parked outside the church overnight, Paul returned Saturday morning to serious vandalism - tires were slashed, a major piece of equipment was damaged, diesel fuel was siphoned and air hoses that are part of a brake system were cut.

This is a town 50 miles east of NYC. It is a commuter town and is extremely community minded, if you will. Also inhabited by some with much wealth, but who enjoy relative anonymity.

Heard of a guy back in the seventies who went against a union and was flattened, to death mind you, by a steamroller in his parent’s driveway. My - at the time- steady date told me about this the morning after it happened and was upset. Can’t imagine what else the story could have been, but I guess no way of really knowing.

The good folks in this particular town after ahurricane when they need help do not take the time and effort and abuse to their equipment to “vandalize”. read between the lines an dunder the headline. This is a turf deal.

I ran across a tree trimming crew filling up their truck at a convenience store just west of STL about a week ago. They said that they just returned from the NYC area where they spent long days handling down trees for the electric utility and spent their nights almost camped out at a nearby college. they were fed by the Red Cross. They looked tired.

They also told them that one of their crew was assaulted while working and had his jaw broken.

If there is another disaster anytime soon, do you smug people in NYC think the rest of us will be as eager to come to your aid? You vote like you worship big government. Let big government rescue you!

From what I've read in articles about the areas that surround NYC, they are mostly Republican. This destruction sounds like union thugs to me.

I live in Western New York and the suburbs around cities is predominately Republican or Conservative. Just because the cities are controlled by the Democrats doesn't mean we like it. In some districts, there are not enough Republican's to control the elections.

During the Governor race (Cuomo) I noticed quite a few thugs hanging around my polling place. Never noticed that happening in the past.

Huntington, Long Island, north shore - maybe not quite 50 miles east of Manhattan.
Raised there from 1939 to 1949, in the Soundview/Westbury/Carley Ave. area. . .
Almost always drive thru there when visiting from our residence now in So. CA.
And always amazed by the convenience of using the Long Island Rail Road!

When I was a kid, I overheard adults talking about enemy soldiers being held prisoners around there. (Germans? Italians?) Don’t know. Very scary. We had blackouts, recycling, ration books, war bond drives, etc., and then heard this.
Thought about that a few years ago, and realized I never knew if this was true or not.
Haven’t researched it to this day!

It’s a cautionary tale to all parents to be very careful what you say around kids.
I have observed parents nowadays - including our daughters - talking about everything under the sun in earshot of kids - not good. Why burden kids with your ap-cray - ??
(For the most part, my parents said very little ‘adult stuff’ in front of my brother and I. Believe they waited until in their bedroom).

Sorry to hear all the troubles disaster workers are having in the New York area.. Don’t blame them one bit for not going back.

Actually the Long Island suburbs haven’t voted Republican in a presidential election since 1988, and even Staten Island voted for Obama this time. Even upstate votes overwhelmingly for Schumer, as you know.

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posted on 12/02/2012 8:31:43 PM PST
by Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)

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